changing NIC card for LAN side
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If I change my spf+ nic card from 2port to 4 port for the LAN side of pfsense. Do I have to rebuild pfsense so it sees all 4 ports?
I am connecting to a 8 port sfp+ aggregation switch to a 24 port POE switch all unifi switches -
@sstatjm As long as it has a driver you should be fine. If it is a different driver hence interface names it will ask you to assign interfaces on boot at the console. Otherwise it will assume __0 = __0 and keep booting.
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I saw that after a few reboots but haven't seen it again since. But only see 2 active ports of 4 . At one port I saw the old card information in it. Not any more thou.
Also if the bracket is missing for the card. Would that be a problem? -
Without the bracket the card may move in the PCIe slot and become disconnected. Which is bad!
What NIC is it?
Do all 4 ports appear under
pciconf -lv?Steve
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What's the bandwidth of the PCI-E bus?
2-port SFP+ works with x4, but I think 4-port would require x8 -
The motherboard is a ASRock H370M-ITX - PCI-Express 3.0 x16 Slot
The nic is a Silicom PE310G4SPI9L-XR-CX3 Quad Port 10Gb SFP+ Ethernet Network Adapter Cardhow do I check for pciconf -lv in pfsense?
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Run that command at the CLI. Or that particular command can be run via Diag > Command Prompt.
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I only see these 2 for that card and the other 2 onboard nics
ix0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x020000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x10fb subvendor=0x1374 subdevice=0x1a08
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
ix1@pci0:5:0:1: class=0x020000 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x10fb subvendor=0x1374 subdevice=0x1a08
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection'
class = network
subclass = ethernet -
Do you think I have to rebuild pfsense for the other 2 ports to become active?
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Hmm, I wouldn't expect a rebuild to make any difference there. If the NICs don't appear on the bus that's some low level incompatibility.
Can you test the card in something else?
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yes I can do that. Will update shortly. Just to see if all 4 ports are active and not just 2?
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tried it on my truenas scale box and only 2 ports show up - only 2 ports light on.
check the network settings in truenas only 2 ports show up there also -
Yes, I'd expect to see 4 PCI devices shown even if they are not attached to a driver.
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So does that mean I have got a bad card?
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It could just be a compatibility issue with that board. Or maybe you didn't look for 'none' devices in the pciconf output? That's how unattached devices are shown.
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Oh, missed your TrueNAS comment. That doesn't look good then. Especially since I believe TrueNAS is Linux based now so it's not a FreeBSD driver issue.
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@sstatjm Curious... Did you ever get this sorted out? I am building out the 3rd node for a ceph cluster and planned to use it in Debian (Proxmox VE) and pass it thru to my VM of pfsense kinda like ive been doing on two other machines in a cluster + CARP setup :-\
